308 THE BIOCOSMOS PARTICULARIZED. 



rial. This waste is mainly composed of worn- 

 out tissues, ashes from the incessant combus- 

 tion going on, gases from the chemical labora- 

 tory in every part, refractory portions of 

 the original food, various secretions for help- 

 ing the work of cleansing, and then a flush 

 of water oozing at every pore. Here we see 

 the primal sanitary police established by Na- 

 ture, but to be sharply looked after by every 

 man who cares for health and working-power. 

 The body has a marvelous instinct of getting 

 rid of its own filth, but needs also intelligent 

 help from the brain. Every organ probably 

 has some ability to excrete its own offal, but 

 the organism has its special officials for this 

 business, chiefly the lungs, kidneys, intestines, 

 skin, all of which have other duties also. It 

 will be noticed that the social Order, espe- 

 cially the City, with its Board of Health and 

 system of sanitation, with its sewers, gar- 

 bage carts, sprinkling, etc., has simply objecti- 

 fied into an institution the working of the hu- 

 man Organism. Associated man takes his 

 instinctive cue from the association of or- 

 gans in his own frame-work. 



With the Excretory System the Organism 

 directed inwards, which started with inter- 

 nalizing the external world or a part of it, 

 has now turned outwards, and thrown back 

 into that same external world what it has not 



